[resource-net] MON 8.10 IAN NAGOSKI´S LECTURE:"TO WHAT A STRANGE PLACE"@LIEBIG12 > 19UHR

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Sun Sep 23 17:27:30 CEST 2012


MONDAY 8.10 @ 7pm

Liebig12 is proud to invite you to this beautiful lecture:

IAN NAGOSKI: "TO WHAT A STRANGE PLACE"

Ian Nagoski will presents his work on early 20th century recordings,in
particular the project To What Strange Place; the Music of the
Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1961-30
Before the Golden Age of Americana on Record, immigrants from the
dissolving Ottoman Empire were singing their joys and sorrows to disc in
New York City.
The virtuosic musicians from Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the
Levant living in the U.S. who recorded between WWI and the Depression are
presented here.
 The intermingled lives and musics of Christians, Jews, and Muslims
represent Middle Eastern culture as it existed within the U.S. a century
ago.
A fascinating, new view of American Folk Music.

83-second Trailer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVezxmzZFws<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjVezxmzZFws&h=wAQEa8Ynb&s=1>
10-minute Featurette:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmmN4mC2gfk<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEmmN4mC2gfk&h=kAQExQdrw&s=1>

Ian Nagoski
is music researcher, musician, writer, and record producer. His avocation
is inspiring people who love music to love it more. In 2007 Ian released
Black Mirror, a collection of gripping music recorded between 1918 and 1954
on the Dust-to-Digital; taste-makers Pitchfork gave it an 8.6 and
Baltimore’s City Paper called it “enigmatic, transfixing, haunting, pretty,
and just plain odd,” and the Kronos Quartet (whose David Harrington called
it the
Record of the Year in the UK paper the Independent) began performing a
piece from it. The academic journal Ethnomusicology lauded it as an
exceptional collection, despite having been made for the general public.

Nagoski followed Black Mirror with two more international collections A
String of Pearls, Brass Pins & Match Heads for his own Canary imprint
(manufactured and distributed by the Porland, OR label Mississippi Records
and now available digital through iTunes, Amazon, etc., along with the rest
of the Canary catalog via San Francisco's Tompkins Square Records) as well
as an LP of the under-recognized and brilliant 1920s Greek singer Marika
Papagika, which LA Times Music Editor Randall Roberts has called
"awe-inspiring." and an LP of the mid-30s recordings of the Indian
classical singer Abdul Karim Khan which Aquarius Records named the record
of the week in August, '11,saying it was "something else altogether [...],
haunting and mystical and completely gorgeous.[...], so powerful and so
passionate [...] you'll be whisked away, totally transported, as the sounds
surround you, and seep into your spirit and soul. The music here so utterly
transcendent, so lush, warm and welcoming, yet at the same time, so strange
and wondrous, Khan's voice sounding like its bathed in divine light.
Incredible."

In recent months, Canary Records has also release two LPs of Greek and
Middle Eastern music from the early and mid 20th century, Bed of Pain and
What Remains of Eden. Before year's end the label will see three more new
releases covering Eastern European immigrant's music, the great Hindustani
singer Smt. Kesarbai Kerkar, and a "global view" of the rise of rock n roll.

Nagoski is also a writer, who has contributed to dozens of magazines and
blogs, and has traveled widely as a teacher and lecturer, moving between
galleries, bars, universities, coffee houses, sound-art festivals, radio.

He is the recipient of a Kindle Foundation Muse Makers award.

A Washington Post festure on Nagoski was selected for Da Capo's Best Music
Writing 2011:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/
AR2010081305087.html

REVIEWS OF TO WHAT STRANGE PLACE:

8.3 "It feels as essential to an understanding of American music as
anything else."
- PItchfork http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15624-to-what-strange-place
-the-music-of-the-ottoman-american-diaspora-1916-1929/

4.5/5 "a beautiful and labyrinthine Americana, one that stretches confines
of the definition of the word itself. It is an essential document for
collectors of world music, but also for those interested in the unsung
personas that created 20th century America."
- AllMusic http://www.allmusic.com/album/to-what-strange-place-the-o
ttoman-american-diaspora-1916-1929-r2213275/review

"Comparisons with Harry Smith's anthology or Revenant's American Primitive
are in order, not least because this is American music with a capital A,
animated by the same feelings of desperation, nostalgia, the quest for
cheap kicks and the agony of loss. Like Smith, Nagoski is a Walter Benjamin
visionary, using his collection of 78s to hallucinate a history that
actually happened but which remains hidden beneath official dogma and
nationalisms."
-The Wire, August 2011

"Nagoski's affection for this music is more than apparent; it's his
dedication to honoring the musicians' lives, traditions, and communities
that makes To What Strange Place the triumph it is. It's one of the most
valuable contributions to our understanding and appreciation of American
music -- as that's what this is -- to come down the pike in a long time."
-Other Music http://www.othermusic.com/2011july28update.html<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.othermusic.com%2F2011july28update.html&h=0AQEPQAgK&s=1>

5/5 "...spend a little time with it and the joys, sorrows, yearnings and
pride of a life spent far, far away from home will creep into your soul."
- Record Collector http://www.recordcollectormag.com/
reviews/review-detail/7471<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recordcollectormag.com%2Freviews%2Freview-detail%2F7471&h=CAQEFKEKe&s=1>

"Our highest award is five stars but in my opinion, you could double that
for this priceless collection. I'm convinced this perfectly produced set is
destined to win some huge award this year because it's absolutely
faultless."
-RedLick http://www.redlick.com/review_read.php?id=293<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redlick.com%2Freview_read.php%3Fid%3D293&h=UAQFOVlT-&s=1>

"*****"
-The Scotsman
http://living.scotsman.com/features/Album-reviews-Charlie-Simps
on-.6818653.jp<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fliving.scotsman.com%2Ffeatures%2FAlbum-reviews-Charlie-Simpson-.6818653.jp&h=bAQGvld43&s=1>

"a massive treasury of world music roots, providing context, contemplation,
and wonder over the course of just a few hours."
-Short and Sweet NYC http://www.shortandsweetnyc.com/2011/07/
to-what-strange-place-the-music-of-the-ottoman-american-diaspora-1916-1929/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shortandsweetnyc.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fto-what-strange-place-the-music-of-the-ottoman-american-diaspora-1916-1929%2F&h=TAQFNFDCF&s=1>

"Timeless beauty... a very special time capsule. Magnificent."
-Moors Magazine
http://www.moorsmagazine.com/muziek/ottoman/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moorsmagazine.com%2Fmuziek%2Fottoman%2F&h=hAQHiwiU1&s=1>

“haunting”
-The New Yorker

"Record of the Year. [...] a masterpiece."
http://distorsioni-it.blogspot.com/2011/10/vvaa-to-what-strange-place-
music-of.html<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdistorsioni-it.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F10%2Fvvaa-to-what-strange-place-music-of.html&h=HAQH6rZFT&s=1>

"one of the best collections of music of 2011. We strongly advise you pick
up a copy."
-Foxy Digitalis
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=20759<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxydigitalis.com%2Ffoxyd%2F%3Fp%3D20759&h=rAQHGDCgK&s=1>

"Ian Nagoski's To What Strange Place is a work of great beauty."
- Jace Clayton / DJ /rupture, WFMU

"I was entranced; I was FASCINATED. It is one of the most worthwhile
purchases you will make this year. I went and got mine; I think you should,
too."
- Henry Rollins, KCRW

ARTICLES ON TO WHAT STRANGE PLACE:
Radikal, Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalH
aberDetayV3&ArticleID=1065768&Date=06.11.2011&CategoryID=82<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radikal.com.tr%2FRadikal.aspx%3FaType%3DRadikalHaberDetayV3%26ArticleID%3D1065768%26Date%3D06.11.2011%26CategoryID%3D82&h=DAQG6iXFP&s=1>
Frieze, London, UK
http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/music9/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.frieze.com%2Fissue%2Farticle%2Fmusic9%2F&h=1AQHoRrc-&s=1>
Baltimore City Paper:
http://citypaper.com/music/get-him-to-the-greeks-1.1168012<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcitypaper.com%2Fmusic%2Fget-him-to-the-greeks-1.1168012&h=HAQH6rZFT&s=1>
The National, Dubai, UAE:
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/musical-treasure-chest-from
-the-ottoman-diaspora-released-as-a-boxed-set?pageCount=0<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae%2Farts-culture%2Fmusic%2Fmusical-treasure-chest-from-the-ottoman-diaspora-released-as-a-boxed-set%3FpageCount%3D0&h=kAQExQdrw&s=1>
Armenian Weekly, Watertown, MA:
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2011/10/20/what-was-left-behind-music-
of-the-ottoman-empire/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.armenianweekly.com%2F2011%2F10%2F20%2Fwhat-was-left-behind-music-of-the-ottoman-empire%2F&h=iAQERWhlM&s=1>
New Haven Register, New Haven, CT
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/09/03/entertainment/
doc4e5fe1c0e3181314162022.txt<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhregister.com%2Farticles%2F2011%2F09%2F03%2Fentertainment%2Fdoc4e5fe1c0e3181314162022.txt&h=fAQGJoRRT&s=1>
Clandestino Institut, Gothenburg, Sweden:
http://clandestinoinstitut.org/en/2012/02/17/ian-nagoski-20-februari-201
2-house-of-win-win/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fclandestinoinstitut.org%2Fen%2F2012%2F02%2F17%2Fian-nagoski-20-februari-2012-house-of-win-win%2F&h=4AQFOlg5-&s=1>

MORE REVIEWS:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/6600<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dustedmagazine.com%2Freviews%2F6600&h=DAQG6iXFP&s=1>
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/sorry-bamba-mickey-newbury-ian-nagoski/
Content?oid=4197720
http://weirdorecords.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product
_info&cPath=4_112&products_id=9665

SOUNDS OF TO WHAT STRANGE PLACE:
The Wire: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/7169/
RCRDLBL: http://rcrdlbl.com/2011/08/02/download_stepan_haigaz_hop_pala

DONT MISS THAT!

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